Gerald Horne’s definitive indictment of the American founding — revealing 1776 not as a revolution for liberty, but as a pro-slavery uprising by a settler elite terrified of Black emancipation, Indigenous sovereignty, and the global currents of abolition reshaping the Atlantic world.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | December 7, 2025America Was Born to Stop... Continue Reading →
The Shadow That Built the World: Rudi Batzell and the Racial Foundations of Labor
Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery: Global Inequality, Racial Boundaries, and the Rise of Unions in American and British Capitalism, 1870–1929By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Intellects Book Review | Weaponized Information | October 18, 2025Introduction: Labor’s Long ShadowRudi Batzell, a historian of capitalism and labor at the University of Chicago, has written one of... Continue Reading →
Empire’s Unions, Empire’s Wages: A Weaponized Intellects Review of Blue-Collar Empire
How the AFL-CIO Became the Empire’s Labor Army and Why Revolutionary Labor in the U.S. Requires Rupture With the Settler BargainBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | October 3, 2025Imperial Unions, Imperial WagesJeff Schuhrke’s Blue-Collar Empire lifts the lid on a history the U.S. labor establishment would prefer remain buried: the story of the AFL-CIO... Continue Reading →
Assata Shakur and Charlie Kirk: Two Martyrs, Two Americas
One died free in exile, a symbol of liberation; the other died at home, a symbol of reaction. Their lives and deaths mirror the split soul of America, caught between empire and freedom.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | September 26, 2025Death as a Mirror of EmpireIn September 2025, two deaths shook the American political... Continue Reading →
Race/Class 101: The Dialectics of Nation, Class Struggle and Revolutionary Rupture in the United States
From genocide and slavery to neoliberal globalization and Trump 2.0, the United States has never been a multiracial democracy—it has been a settler empire. To fight it demands clarity: nation and class cannot be separated. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | September 8, 2025PrefaceThis essay is a preliminary sketch of what I have spent... Continue Reading →